- From: WALKER, Julie <Julie.WALKER@london.sema.slb.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:05:18 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
hi all, i'd really appreciate your opinions on what the best option would be for my situation both usability and accessibility-wise: background on the site: - designed to 800x600 (client extremely opposed to horizontal scrolling (as am i for the most part) - no javascript - templatised - in both english and welsh on some pages the site will return data to the user in the form of dropdowns. the width of the dropdowns is dependent on the number of characters in the lines(the lines are addresses and one of them may only be 20 characters long, but another one may be 400 characters long and that would dictate the overal width). i am thinking i have the following options: 1.) allow for the full address to be displayed (so that the user may have to scroll horizontally, but at least none of them are ambiguous). 2.) implement three dots (...) after a certain number of characters. i would be interested in hearing other options if you have any. i am currently leaning towards option 1 because the option 2 would be difficult to impose because i am not sure what a 'user-friendly' length is for addresses to be cut off at and doubt this would be the same in english as it is in welsh (could rules be different for the languages and if so, does anyone know when it would be user-friendly to implement (...) to an address in english and in welsh? also - i'm guessing there would be issues with screen readers. would the screen reader read 'dot, dot, dot' or sthg like that? also, because of the ambiguity, it is easy for the user to chose an incorrect address (especially because postcodes appear at the end of the address) which could mean a vicious circle of errors. so, can anyone think of any other options? thanks very much in advance, julie
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